By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 15, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS -- ICE's violence continued on Wednesday night with another ICE shooting. Three Lakotas arrested by ICE remain disappeared at Fort Snelling, the long time site of the genocide of Dakota people. In the search for the three disappeared Lakotas, Oglala Lakota President Frank Star Comes Out says he refuses to cut a deal with ICE, which ICE is demanding to release more information. Meanwhile, a whistleblower has leaked the secret ICE operations underway -- including the targeting of activists, recruiting informants in jail, and 'Operation A' exploiting migrants for intelligence. Both the Tohono O'odham Nation government, and Navajo President Buu Nygren, play roles by recruiting and promoting ICE agents. -- Censored News.
"Federal officials informed us that the Tribe could access that information only if we entered into an immigration agreement." -- Oglala President Frank Star Comes Out
Statement of Oglala President Frank Star Comes Out, Jan. 14, 2026
“I am the President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Chairman of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, which includes seventeen federally recognized Indian tribes.
Recently, I was made aware that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained four Oglala Sioux tribal members in Minneapolis, Minnesota. These individuals are homeless and were living under a bridge near the Little Earth Housing Complex in the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis.
When the Oglala Sioux Tribe requested more information concerning this matter, federal officials informed us that the Tribe could access that information only if we entered into an immigration agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Tribe does not intend to enter into any immigration agreement with ICE or the Department of Homeland Security, whether pursuant to § 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 25 U.S.C. § 2804(e), or otherwise. We will not enter into any agreement that would authorize, or make it easier for, ICE or Homeland Security to enter our tribal homeland to arrest or detain our tribal members.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is a federally recognized Indian tribe. We have a treaty-based, nation-to-nation relationship with the United States. We are entitled to information from federal agencies concerning our tribal citizens, and we should not be required to enter into an immigration agreement with ICE to obtain that information.
Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the First Americans. We are not undocumented immigrants, and we are not subject to unlawful immigration enforcement actions by ICE or the Department of Homeland Security.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe hereby issues formal notice to the United States Government, including ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, and all subordinate agencies, that any detention of Oglala Sioux tribal members under immigration authority constitutes a grave violation of tribal treaties, statutory law, and the constitutional rights of a sovereign people.
Tribal members are not aliens. They are not subject to immigration enforcement or detention. They are citizens of this land by treaty, by statute, and by history.”
— Frank Star Comes Out, President
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations
By Ken Klippenstein
“I am the President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Chairman of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, which includes seventeen federally recognized Indian tribes.
Recently, I was made aware that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained four Oglala Sioux tribal members in Minneapolis, Minnesota. These individuals are homeless and were living under a bridge near the Little Earth Housing Complex in the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis.
When the Oglala Sioux Tribe requested more information concerning this matter, federal officials informed us that the Tribe could access that information only if we entered into an immigration agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Tribe does not intend to enter into any immigration agreement with ICE or the Department of Homeland Security, whether pursuant to § 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 25 U.S.C. § 2804(e), or otherwise. We will not enter into any agreement that would authorize, or make it easier for, ICE or Homeland Security to enter our tribal homeland to arrest or detain our tribal members.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is a federally recognized Indian tribe. We have a treaty-based, nation-to-nation relationship with the United States. We are entitled to information from federal agencies concerning our tribal citizens, and we should not be required to enter into an immigration agreement with ICE to obtain that information.
Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the First Americans. We are not undocumented immigrants, and we are not subject to unlawful immigration enforcement actions by ICE or the Department of Homeland Security.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe hereby issues formal notice to the United States Government, including ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, and all subordinate agencies, that any detention of Oglala Sioux tribal members under immigration authority constitutes a grave violation of tribal treaties, statutory law, and the constitutional rights of a sovereign people.
Tribal members are not aliens. They are not subject to immigration enforcement or detention. They are citizens of this land by treaty, by statute, and by history.”
— Frank Star Comes Out, President
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed
Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations
By Ken Klippenstein
Jan 14, 2026 -- "Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis — these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out “illegals,” but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show.
"A Border Patrol official outraged by ICE’s conduct has leaked to me this and other documents providing an unprecedented glimpse into ICE’s undeclared activities across the country. Many of these operations and their codenames have not been previously reported.
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| The leaked documents reveal Operation Abracadabra was initiated with the requirement of Interviewing 100 percent of individuals apprehended to gather intelligence and identify follow-on targets. Operation Benchwarmer reveals the employment of agents dressing in “plainclothes” to disguise themselves as ordinary people in an attempt to gather intelligence. |
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| 'Shadow Wolves' is an ICE unit of Tohono O'odham romanticized by the pro-law enforcement media. |
With ICE violent and out-of-control , and three Lakota disappeared at Fort Snelling -- one of our readers points out that the Tohono O'odham Nation government is playing a role, by recruiting and promoting ICE's 'Shadow Wolves.'
The ICE unit of Tohono O'odham members has been heavily promoted by pro-law enforcement media.
Further, the Tohono O'odham Nation was the first tribal government to become part of the multi-law enforcement secretive Fusion Centers, sharing information.
The Tohono O'odham government is not the only one promoting ICE. Navajo President Buu Nygren urged Dine' to work for ICE in September, after a meeting with federal agents in Phoenix.
The Tohono O'odham Nation government refuses to identify the tribal police officer, a non-tribal member, who led the U.S. Border Patrol agents to the home of Raymond Mattia, where a crowd of U.S. Border Patrol agents murdered him. Before his death, Raymond told Censored News that he had video-taped U.S. Border Patrol agents running drugs with the cartels past his home on the western part of the Tohono O'odham Nation. The evidence Raymond submitted had disappeared.
Censored News reader points out:
"Why not comment on how it is the Tohono O'odam who is infiltrating?
"Shadow Wolves Program: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) operates the "Shadow Wolves," an elite, all-Native American tactical patrol unit based on the Tohono O'odham Nation that specializes in tracking and interdicting human and drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border. ICE issued a strategy in 2022 to recruit and retain more Shadow Wolves and potentially expand the program to other tribal lands."
ICE targeting Native American women in Minneapolis.
Currently, there are more than 2,000 ICE and federal agents in Minneapolis. There are 800 U.S. Border Patrol agents. Today, plans were announced to send another 1,000 ICE and federal agents to Minneapolis.
Article will be updated.
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